Willem Dafoe

Appleton's Mile of Music gets ready to roll. No tickets? No Problem. They want you to hear their tunes, all original. It's Wisconsin's South by Southwest. I am strolling down the street on a warm midsummer's night, my steps falling into the shuffling rhythm of a blues band for a moment, then slowing to some cool jazz a few storefronts down, until I finally stop at a lone folk singer in a colorfully lit tavern. Across the street must be something good as the line spills out the door. Mile of Music, they call it: a stretch of College Avenue — the main drag in Appleton, Wis. — that becomes a corridor of song as more than 200 artists play 800 live performances...

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